Genetics in Human Reproduction Book

	List of Contributors
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
Pt. 1	Medical and scientific view
1	Clinical experience with PID and ICSI	3
2	The various micromanipulative procedures: State of the art, changes, and risks	17
3	The relation between ICSI and genetic diagnosis from an ethical point of view	23
4	Modification of IVF application and access to IVF services by PID?	33
5	Examples for possible PID indications - scientific background and reflections on effects	37
6	Should there be a uniform list of genetic diseases allowing access to PID?	47
7	Nuclear transplantation - medical and ethical aspects	55
Pt. 2	Personal interests and moral implications
1	Ethics of preimplantation genetic diagnosis	75
2	Preimplantation diagnosis. A reflection in light of a personalist ethics	97
3	Ethical aspects of germline gene therapy	107
4	'Quality control' in reproduction - what can it mean, what should it mean?	119
5	Does gene therapy have ethically problematic effects on identity?	127
Pt. 3	Moral rights and duties
1	Does PID solve the moral problems of prenatal diagnosis? A rights analysis	135
2	Ethics of Research on Human Embryos	141
3	Categorical arguments - Pro life versus pro choice?	147
4	Selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis	157
Pt. 4	Social concepts and moral implications
1	Eugenics comes back with medically assisted procreation	169
2	Germline gene 'therapy': Public opinions with regard to eugenics	175
3	Predictive genetic medicine - a new concept of disease	185
4	Animal Models: an anthropologist considers Dolly	197
5	Issues surrounding preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy	209
6	Beside the point - reflections on passivity	213
Pt. 5	Choices and decision making
1	What claims can be based on the desire for a healthy child? Towards an ethics of 'informed desires'	223
2	The European Alliance of Genetic Support Groups	235
3	Some reflections on the use of the term 'prevention' in reproductive medicine	243
4	Preimplantation diagnosis - implications for genetic counselling	25ä
Pt. 6	Health care, justice and regulation
1	Legal regulations concerning preimplantation diagnosis	261
2	Reproductive technology and the slippery slope argument: A message in Blood	273
3	Measuring the benefits of IVF	285
4	Justice and preimplantation diagnosis	293
5	The role of ethics codes in medicine - how can they be helpful in making decisions?	299
	Index	311